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Providing Information to our Patients: Published and Personal Perspectives

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 September 2014

Joseph F. Megyesi*
Affiliation:
London, Ontario, Canada
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Copyright © The Canadian Journal of Neurological 2014

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